Category: Travel

Needing a break from the arduous task of living a semi-retired existence in Scotland, I took a few days away to re-visit a city I haven't seen since I was a teenager: Chester, England. An all-too-brief tea stop en route from London to the Lake District my first time there, Chester is still, decades later, …

Coming to you live from Bonnie Scotland. I'll be reviewing for UK publishers and venues through the next few months, up and running here at Bluestalking. You'll find me at the Edinburgh International Literary Festival in August, attending events, standing very close to authors, reading and buying books, enjoying the roar of the grease …

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. Terry Pratchett

As I was saying, I flew to Edinburgh on the spur of the moment, staying nine days from the end of August through early September. In my earlier post I covered the generalities: the whys and whats and wherefores. I went because I could, because I had the time and the freedom and the money. …

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” ― Holly Morris If my Grand, Impulsive Excursion to Bonnie Scotland were a book, it could best be described as pitch perfect, the work of a writer at the height of her powers and, that …

magnolia cemetery, charleston, s.c. I don't want to hear about the weird lighting affect in this photo, how the sunspot and lighter area on the statue is weird or spooky or what-not. I was shooting against the light; I was bound to get a lens flare. I found the level of detail in this statue …

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.” - Ellis Flynn, Wear Black Having finished posting about the first leg of my adventures in Ireland I'm feeling rather contemplative re: what it meant to …

Yeah, I realize it's taken me more than double the time to tell you about my two weeks in Ireland and Wales than it did to experience them. And you're probably sick of hearing that old excuse about how busy I am and how exciting my life is and how my social life consists of rubbing …

2.01 I'd never booked a bus tour before Ireland but in order to see more of the country outside Dublin I thought it behooved me to try it. It's a risk trusting your vacation to someone else, even tour professionals. All you can do is research the route, trust to reviews from past travelers and …

Was just going about my business, la di da, when this came through my FB feed: 25 Reasons Why Scotland Must Be on Your Bucket List - boredpanda.com I've been to Scotland, let's see... one, two, three times and found it staggeringly beautiful but I've never seen any of the sites photographed in this article. …